Category: Pre-Prep News
The Reception topic this term is “All Creatures Great and Small”. The children have been invited to bring their pets to school. This week Sukie and her Mummy brought their puppy, Bonnie, for Show and Tell. Sukie was able to tell the class how she looks after Bonnie. The children were very excited and learnt a lot about how to care for a dog.
RHYME OF THE WEEK 24. 04. 15
(Follow up to extract from RUBY by Maggie Glen)
Extract from a poem by Gerald Haigh
Fat, thin, high, low
Short, tall, fast, slow
Sorry, scatty, silly, soppy
Merry, happy, jolly, spotty
Black, yellow, brown, white
Sleepy, lively, dim, bright
Look around us and you’ll see
We’re all different – you and me
Him from her, girl from boy
John from Sandeep, Jane from Roy……
Book and Arts Week ended on Friday, 20 March with all of Queen’s House dressing up as our favourite animal characters from books. A fantastic variety of creatures turned up including: Fantastic Mr Fox, The Enormous Crocodile, plenty of Dalmatians, Paddington, Muggle-Wump, The Little Red Hen, Puss-in-Boots and Rasta Mouse! A fantastic effort was made with the costumes and the children enjoyed the fancy dress parade in the morning. Mrs King judged the best costumes and the winners were: Suki for her fabulous snail, Rowan who was Winnie the Pooh, Sam for his waddling penguin, Jackson who was Mr Fox and Betty who was Mrs Fox. The overall winner was Arthur who was Paddington, complete with marmalade sandwiches in his old suitcase. What a wonderful end to a terrific week.
On Monday the finals of The Abbey Verse Speaking Competition took place. All the Year 2’s went to listen and support the Year 2 finalists Jon Stanley, James, Sasha and Rose. We were so proud of James who kicked off the event with a lovely clear recital of his poem Gulls by Jean Kenwood. Everyone was impressed with Rose’s poem; The Sea by James Reeves. She used wonderful expression and intonation. Jon Stanley really gave his best when he delivered his version of Gulls – it was so well articulated. But, it was Sasha who won with her excellent performance of A Day at the Beach written by none other than her brother Oliver! A fabulous morning of poetry really inspired the Year 2’s who had already caught the poetry bug from our visiting Author Tony Mitton during Book and Arts Week.
On 24th March 2015, Mrs Copestake, the Food Technology teacher, took the Year 2 to visit Sainsbury’s in Ipswich. Mr Na Nakhorn, the store manager and parent of Year 2 pupil, Arthur, planned a brilliantly organised morning of activities learning many interesting things and skills. The overall favourite activity was, unsurprisingly, injecting jam into the doughnuts and coating them in sugar. The trickiest task of the day was, without question, completing this without licking fingers!
Another favourite was when the children tested their speed skills at scanning products at the checkouts. You will be pleased to hear, we have a few potential tillers for the future as several managed 20/20 in 1 minute.
Other activities such as cheese tasting, calculating the cost of a meal deal, finding the origin of the bananas, or locating the dragon fruit kept the children busy and very excited.
Many thanks to Mr Na Nakhorn and his team for a hugely entertaining and informative day. The children were so grateful for their goodie bag of doughnuts and cupcake fun!
The children in Reception have been learning about Easter. After listening to the Easter story they went outside into the Queen’s House garden and collected natural materials to create an Easter Garden. They enjoyed working together and were very pleased with the end result. Inside the classroom they drew pictures and did some writing about the story and then they made a display of their work.
Today the children at Queen’s House very much enjoyed watching the performance of The Enormous Turnip by the One Moment in Time Theatre Company. The children loved listening to the music and were enthralled by the beautiful scenery and puppets. Afterwards they were given the opportunity to ask questions about the story and the puppets.
Last Thursday two Year 2 football teams took part in the Soccer Tournament at The Abbey. Both teams looked professional and played extremely well, gaining second and third place overall. Barnaby scored two brilliant goals in a row and Lara, who was the only girl on the pitch, played with great skill and determination. All the games were played with enthusiasm and good sportsmanship with plenty of encouragement from the side-lines. At the end of the tournament everyone received a medal and a delicious match tea. A big thank you to the organisers and coaches Mr Graham and Mr Earl.
On Friday afternoon Queen’s House took part in a special assembly in which prizes were given out to the children. The winner of the Dog Competition was Laura O, who correctly guessed the name of the dog to be Barley. Poetry competition winners were Hermione, Margot, Alex C, Jamie M and Boo L. Art prizes were awarded to Alice K, Saffron V, Ruby L, Eriko B and Will M. The Fancy Dress competition was very hard to judge as all the children had made such an effort with their costumes! After much debate, Sukie H, Rowan K, Sam L, Jackson H and Betty G all claimed prizes with the overall winner being Arthur N as Paddington Bear.
The theme for this year’s Book and Arts Week is Animals. Today there was great excitement at Queen’s House as Jenny’s Ark came to visit with over 40 different types of animals! There were rabbits, guinea pigs, tortoises, stick insects and even snakes! The children were told all about the animals including where they come from, what they eat and how to care for them. They were able to hold and feed them. They were amazed by the giant rabbit!
